Fred and Edie by Dawson, Jill - 2001

New York, New York, USA: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001. CF4 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, and the title page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very, very slight fading on the spine plus it is still in the original library clear plastic sleeve. A novel set in London in 1922. The main character is an attractive, confident, financially independent woman. She married during the Great War but is finding her suburban life an dhusband stifling. The new freedoms of the modern woman attracts her and she takes a lover who is seven years younger than her. In a fit of jealousy, her lover stabs her husband to death as the couple is walking home one night from the theater. The trial becomes sensational and they are tried, convicted, and hanged. This book has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize. By the author of "Trick of the Light" and "Magpie." 276p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.